But that's exactly what nobody wants, as the & of & is treated as parameter delimiter. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header;
print "<pre>\n";
print $_, "=", $q->param($_), "\n" for $q->param;
print "\n</pre>\n";

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prints 
foo=bar
amp=
baz=

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for 
http://electra.igd.fhg.de/cgi-bin/test3.pl?foo=bar&amp;baz

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but it should print 
foo=bar&baz

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You need to use CGI::escape or URI::Escape but not CGI::escapeHTML.

Update: Just for completeness: a() calls CGI::Util::make_attributes on each attribute, the latter calls CGI::Util::simple_escape for escaping ("&"->"&amp;" and some others). CGI::Util::escape does something different (see my last post).

alex pleiner <alex@zeitform.de>
zeitform Internet Dienste

In reply to Re: Re: Re: CGI fails to urlencode & chars in outbound url's by projekt21
in thread CGI fails to urlencode & chars in outbound url's by BrowserUk

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